Ann: $2.5m Placement to Accelerate Drilling at Equador Project, page-55

How much would it cost WA1?

Someone on there said $1 Billion,
I reckon around $1.5 Billion.

But also due to the other factors such as:


WA1 is literally in the middle of Nowhere,
In a Country that does not even have one Niobium Mine.

How much to address all of these other Issues:

It has No Water,
No Power,
No Sewerage,
No Workers,
No Worker Accommodation,
No Refineries in Australia.

So it would need to Build a Dam,
Build a Town or some Accommodation for Workers,
Need to Build a Sewerage Treatment Plant,
Or have all human waste Trucked out.
Transport All Food and All Other items to site.
Fly Workers in an Out,
Possibly build and Airstrip,
Work out how to build a Refinery,
Find and Teach workers who have never worked with Niobium Before,
Be one of the First Mines of it's type (Niobium) in The Country,
Which has NEVER Mined Niobium before and does not know what it is doing.
And much much more....

How much would it cost to sort all of those things out?
In the Middle of Australia